On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Christopher Browne <[email protected]> wrote: >> i have not yet bought the processor , so I would like to know whether >> 32-bit processor or 64-bit processor is recommended given the fact >> that I use only GNU/Linux based operating system . > > There's somewhat more software that runs on IA-32 than on x86_64. The > sorts of things that people find missing on x86_64 are: > > - Adobe Flash > - Possibly Skype > - Third party things provided in binary form (e.g. - no sources) > > If you care about those sorts of applications a lot, then that should > certainly influence your decision, probably towards 32 bit. > > If not, then there's still often not *strong* reason to prefer 64 bit > - it's not vastly superior on all kinds of workloads, though there are > considerable advantages for applications that can really use a lot of > memory. I don't use Flash and Skpype. I need emacs and Java OpenJDK 6 , these are the two most important things . If they are already ported to amd64 . Then its good news .
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